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The Retention Folder feature enables you to create a single folder or a hierarchy of folders automatically on file servers, to be managed by Enterprise Vault and archived according to assigned policies. The folder hierarchy can be added to a specified target folder or to its subfolders. For example, you could create a hierarchy of retention folders in every user's home folder. Items placed in the retention folders are archived by Enterprise Vault according to the particular policy assigned to each folder. You define the archives to use for the retention folders by specifying where archive points are to be created. If a user deletes any folders in the retention folder hierarchy, Enterprise Vault recreates the folders during the next run of the FSA archiving task in normal mode.
You configure retention folders using the Administration Console. The required steps are as follows:
Create a suitable folder policy to use as the default folder policy for the retention folders.
Create a Retention Folder policy, to define the hierarchy of folders to be created on the FSA target, and the folder policy to use on each folder
Add the FSA target on which you want the retention folders created, assign the Retention Folder policy, and specify where archive points are to be created. You can specify that the retention folder hierarchy is added to the root of the FSA target, or to each subfolder.
The folders are created on the file server on the next normal mode archiving run. To test the effect of an assigned retention folder policy you can perform an archiving run in report mode. You can also assign policies to folders using a command line interface.